Chocolate binge topping $100 bln boosts cocoa: Commodities

Shrinking cocoa harvests in West Africa, the largest producing region, are diminishing a glut of beans just as sales of chocolate confectionery exceed $100 billion for the first time ever.
Global supply will decline 7.7 percent in the year to September, shrinking the surplus to 32,000 metric tons, from 434,000 tons a year earlier, according to Marex Spectron Group Ltd., which trades the beans in New York and London………………………………………..Full Article: Source